Association of Psychiatric Services Referral and Attendance Following Treatment for Deliberate Self-harm With Prospective Mortality in Norwegian Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Psychiatric care following somatic treatment for deliberate self-harm (DSH) is pivotal in patients' lives both in the short and long term, but evidence to guide such care is limited.

Objective

To examine follow-up psychiatric care for patients treated for DSH (ie, intentional self-injury or self-poisoning, irrespective of motivation) at hospital emergency departments and to assess the association of psychiatric referral and treatment attendance with risk of subsequent mortality in these patients.

Design, setting, and participants

Retrospective data from several Norwegian registries were interlinked to follow up a national cohort of all patients with hospital-treated DSH for up to 11 years from 2008 through 2018. Data were analyzed from March to October 2021

SUBMITTER: Qin P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9118082 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature